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Hunting rabbits, serving spam: The net under siege

Title: Hunting rabbits, serving spam: The net under siege
Date: Wednesday, 4 October 1995
Publisher: Denver Westword News
Author: Alan Prendergast
Main source: westword.com

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The growing popularity of the Internet has spawned discussion groups that offer something for just about everyone, from lovers of Jean-Luc Picard (try alt.sexy.bald.captains) to haters of a certain children's television program (alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die) to obsessives consumed by politics, computer lore, comic books or the hidden messages embedded in a single rock song (alt.meter-maid.lovely.rita). Few newsgroups, though, have drawn the kind of following now evident on alt.religion.scientology (a.r.s.), an international debating circle concerning the Church of Scientology. Always controversial, in recent months ... [Read the rest at westword.com]